is a Japanese manufacturer of

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

vehicles based in

Osaka is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...

. It is an affiliate company of Kintetsu Corporation. In business since 1920 as Tanaka Rolling Stock Works, and renamed The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd in 1945, they produce

rolling stock The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, Railroad car#Freight cars, freight and Passenger railroad car, passenger cars (or coaches) ...

for numerous transportation agencies, ranging from

Shinkansen The , colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan. It was initially built to connect distant Japanese regions with Tokyo, the capital, to aid economic growth and development. Beyond lon ...

high-speed train High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilising trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialised rolling stock and dedicated tracks. While there is no single def ...

s to

light rail vehicle Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from ...

s. Kinki Sharyo is listed on the

Tokyo Stock Exchange The , abbreviated as Tosho () or TSE/TYO, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan. The exchange is owned by Japan Exchange Group (JPX), a holding company that it also lists (), and operated by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., a wholly owned sub ...

as .

Clients

North America

* Mexico's Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México

United States

* Boston's MBTA Green Line * LA's Metro A, E, L, K, and C lines. * New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen and Newark Light Rail systems * San Jose's

VTA light rail The VTA light rail system serves San Jose, California, San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) and has of network comprising three main lines on stan ...

* Phoenix's

Valley Metro Rail Valley Metro Rail is a light rail system serving the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, USA. The network, which is part of the Valley Metro public transit system, began operations on December 27, 2008. In , the system had a ridership of , ...

Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

's Sound Transit Link 1 Line *

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a transit agency serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex of Texas. It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and twelve of its suburbs. In , the system had a r ...

(DART) light rail

Dallas, Texas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

( Kinki Sharyo SLRV)

Asia

* Doha's

Doha Metro The Doha Metro (, ''Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Mitru ad-Dawha'') is a rapid transit system in the Doha Metropolitan Area of Qatar's capital city Doha, which became operational on 8 May 2019. It has three lines with an approximate overal ...

* Dubai's Dubai Metro *

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

Kowloon–Canton Railway The Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR; ) was a railway network in Hong Kong.Legislative Council information paper CB(1)357/07-08(0 THB(T) CR 8/986/00, CB(1)1749/07-08(0/ref> It was owned and operated by the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (KC ...

(merged with Mass Transit Railway in 2007.) ** Premium Class T1 and T2 bi-level coaches for Guangdong Through Train, also known as KTT. ** SP1900/1950

EMU The emu (; ''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is a species of flightless bird endemism, endemic to Australia, where it is the Tallest extant birds, tallest native bird. It is the only extant taxon, extant member of the genus ''Dromaius'' and the ...

, serving the , and formerly the West Rail, Ma On Shan, and s ***Extra SP1000/1950 carriages for the

Sha Tin to Central Link The Sha Tin to Central Link (abbreviated SCL; ) was an expansion project of the MTR public transport network in Hong Kong. It was divided into two sections and expanded the network’s Passenger rail terminology#Heavy rail, heavy rail lines. ...

, ordered 2014. *

Philippine The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

's Light Rail Transit Authority ** Class 1200 LRV (jointly with

Nippon Sharyo , formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock, Heavy equipment, heavy equipment, Diesel generator, generator, Special-purpose entity, special purpose vehicle and bridge manufacturer based in Nagoya, Japan. In 1996, it abbreviated its ...

) serving the

LRT Line 1 (Metro Manila) The Light Rail Transit Line 1, commonly referred to as LRT Line 1 or LRT-1, is a state-owned (through Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA)) but privately operated (by Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC)) light rapid transit system line in Metr ...

. *

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) The Mass Rapid Transit system, locally known by the Acronym, initialism MRT, is a rapid transit system in Singapore and the island country's principal mode of Rail transport in Singapore, railway transportation. After two decades of planning th ...

*** Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151

Japan

JR Group The Japan Railways Group, commonly known as the or simply JR, is a network of railway companies in Japan formed after the Corporate spin-off, division and privatization of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. ...

* Kintetsu *

Hanshin Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway company owned by Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group that links Osaka and Kobe. It also owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. The first character for Kobe (神戸) and the second character for Osaka (大阪) combine to form ...

Nankai Electric Railway is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predate ...

Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau (大阪市交通局, ''Ōsaka-shi Kōtsū-kyoku'') was the public department of transportation of the city of Osaka, Japan that existed from 1903 to 2018. It operated the municipal subway lines, the New Tram, a ...

* Sendai City Transportation Bureau

Africa

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Cairo Metro The Cairo Metro (, lit. "Cairo Tunnel Metro" or ) is a rapid transit system in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It was the first of the three full-fledged metro systems in Africa and the first in the Middle East to be constructed. It was opened in ...

** Alexandria, Egypt trams

Australia

* Trans-Australian Express train coaches.

South America

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: Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado Roca Line

Products

Kinki Sharyo also produces steel doors, known as the KJ series, for public housing in Japan. * LRTA Line 1 Manila, Philippines ** LRTA Class 1200 * Railway Transportation in the United States **Unnamed Low Floor LRV – Santa Clara County, California **

Green Line (MBTA) The Green Line is a light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area. It is the oldest MBTA subway line, and with tunnel sections dating from 1897, the oldest subway ...

''Type 7'' Light Rail Vehicle – Boston, Massachusetts ** HB Series (informal name) low-floor light rail vehicle – Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Newark & Hudson County, New Jersey ** Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) – Dallas, Texas DART rail

** Kinkisharyo-Mitsui LF LRV –

Sound Transit Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. It manages the Link light rail system in Se ...

Link light rail Link light rail is a light rail system with some rapid transit characteristics that serves the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. It is managed by Sound Transit in partnership with local transit pro ...

, Seattle, Washington **

LF LRV – Phoenix, Arizona (entered service 2008) ** LFX-300 – marketed as AmeriTRAM™ and tested on Charlotte Area Transit System network in 2011. ** P3010 – LA Metro, Los Angeles, California ** Refurbishment of the

Hitachi Rail Hitachi, Ltd. Railway Systems Business Unit, Trade name, trading as Hitachi Rail, is the rolling stock and railway signalling manufacturing division of Hitachi outside Japan. History Hitachi's rail division before global expansion After the ...

CQ311 used by MARTA ** Refurbishment of the AnsaldoBreda P2550 used by LA Metro *

** M, N1 and N2 Cars for No.1 Line ** M, N1,N2 and T Cars for No.2 Line * KCR in Hong Kong (merged with

MTR The Mass Transit Railway system, known locally by the initialism MTR, is a rapid transit system in Hong Kong and the territory's principal mode of Rail transport in Hong Kong, railway transportation. Operated by the MTR Corporation (MTRCL), ...

in 2007) ** EMU SP1900/SP1950 ** KTT passenger coaches for Guangdong Through Train *** T1 Premium Class bi-level Coaches *** T2 First Class bi-level Coaches * Ferrocarriles Argentinos ** 20200224 133656 M4024

Sub-urban ''"Toshiba"'' EMUs of

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(with

Toshiba is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors ...

's electrical equipments) *** For

Sarmiento Line The Sarmiento line is a broad gauge commuter rail service in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, run by the state-owned Trenes Argentinos since 11 September 2013. The line is part of Domingo Sarmiento Railway, running trains departing from Once ...

*** For

Mitre Line The Mitre line is an Argentine broad gauge commuter rail service in Buenos Aires Province and is part of the Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre division. The service is currently operated by the state-owned company Operadora Ferroviaria Soci ...

*** For

Urquiza Line The Urquiza Line is a suburban electric commuter rail line in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operated by the former Buenos Aires Underground operator Metrovías. It runs from the Federico Lacroze terminus in the neighborhood of Chacarita, to Gener ...

*** For Roca Line *

( West Japan Railway) *** Shinkansen0-n700

W7 Series Shinkansen *** N700 Series Shinkansen *** 700 Series (Rail-Star) Shinkansen ***

500 Series Shinkansen The is a Shinkansen High-speed rail, high-speed train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) in Japan on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen line from 1997 until 2010, and the San'yō Shinkansen line since 1997. They were designed to be cap ...

*** 100 Series (Grand Hikari) Shinkansen ** Shinkansen ( Central Japan Railway) ***

300 Series Shinkansen The was a Japanese High-speed rail, high-speed Shinkansen train type, with a top operational speed of 270 km/h (170 mph), which operated on the Tokaido Shinkansen, Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines in Japan between 1992 and 2012. When fir ...

*** 100 Series Shinkansen ** Shinkansen (

Kyushu Railway was a company that built and operated railways in Kyushu, one of four main islands of Japan. Most of its lines came under the control of Japanese Government Railways following nationalization in 1907, and many are now operated by Kyushu Railway ...

) *** N700 Series Shinkansen **

JR Central is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and occasionally as JR Tokai (). The term ''Tōkai'' refers to the southern portion of Central Japan, ...

*** 313 series – Central Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train **

JR East The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in ...

*** E257 series – East Japan Railway Limited Express **

JR West , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, ...

***

223 series The is a suburban electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) in the Kansai region, Chūgoku region and Shikoku region of Japan. Multiple batches of the model have been built with varying diffe ...

– West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train *** 225 series – West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train *** 227 series – West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train *** 271 series – West Japan Railway limited express train *** 273 series – West Japan Railway limited express train *** 287 series – West Japan Railway limited express train ***

285 series The is a sleeper electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated jointly by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on the overnight '' Sunrise Izumo'' and '' Sunrise Seto'' limited express service ...

– West Japan Railway and Central Japan Railway Electric Sleeping car *** 321 series – West Japan Railway Commuter Electric Train *** 323 series – West Japan Railway Commuter Electric Train *** 681 series – West Japan Railway Company and Hokuetsu Express Limited Express ***

683 series The is a dual-voltage electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on limited express services in Japan since 2001. Variants 683-0 series The first subseries consists of 54 cars composed of 6 6-ca ...

– West Japan Railway Limited Express *** 87 series (KiITe 87, KiSaINe 86-501, KiRa 86, KiShi 86) – West Japan Railway Diesel Sleeping car **

JR Shikoku The , commonly known as , is the smallest of the seven constituent companies of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates of intercity and local rail services in the four Prefectures of Japan, prefectures on the island of Shikoku in Jap ...

*** 7000 series – Shikoku Railway Suburban Electric Train *** 1500 series – Shikoku Railway Diesel Train **

JR Kyushu The , also referred to as , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates intercity rail services within Kyushu, Japan. It formerly operated the Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Strait be ...

*** 303 series – Kyushu Railway Commuter Electric Train *** 813 series – Kyushu Railway Suburban Electric Train * Private Railways in Japan **

Kintetsu Railway , referred to as and officially Kinki-Nippon Railway, is a Japanese passenger railway company, managing infrastructure and operating passenger train service. Its railway system is the largest in Japan, excluding Japan Railways Group. The railw ...

*** Double decker cars "Vista Car" – Kintetsu *** 21020 series – Limited Express Electric Train "Urban Liner Next" *** 23000 series – Limited Express Electric Train "Ise-Shima Liner" *** 22600 series/ 16600 Series – Limited Express Electric Train "Ace" *** 50000 series – Limited Express Electric Train "Shimakaze" KINTETSU50000 Formation

*** 3220, 5820, 6820, 9020 and 9820 Series – "Series 21" Commuter Electric Car **

*** 1000 series – Commuter Train *** 5700 series – Commuter Train **

*** 8300 series – Commuter Train **

Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway is a railway operator in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Its sole line, officially named the , operates as a through-service extension of the Midōsuji Line of the Osaka Metro. is a third-sector railway - 54% owned by Hankyu Corporation, a major ...

*** 9000 series – Electric Train * Municipal Railways in Japan **

Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau is an agency of the city government of Kyoto, Japan that operates municipal subways and city buses within the city. Previously, it also operated trams and trolley buses. Subway The Kyoto Municipal Subway operates the following two lines: *Kara ...

*** 10 series – Subway train for the Karasuma Line *** 20 series – Subway train for the Karasuma Line *** 50 series – Subway train for the Tozai Line **

Osaka Metro The is a major rapid transit system in the Osaka metropolitan area of Japan, operated by the Osaka Metro Company, Ltd. It serves the city of Osaka and the adjacent municipalities of Higashiosaka, Kadoma, Moriguchi, Sakai, Suita, and Yao. ...

*** 22 series – Subway Cars *** 80 series – Linear Motor Subway Cars for Imazatosuji Line *** 30000 series – Subway Cars for Tanimachi Line and Midosuji Line **

Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation The , also known as Toei Transportation, Toei Transport, or simply , is a bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government which operates public transport services in Tokyo. Among its services, the Toei Subway is one of two rapid transit systems wh ...

*** 5300 series – Subway Cars for the

Toei Asakusa Line The is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the municipal subway operator Toei Subway. The line runs between in Ōta, Tokyo, Ōta and in Sumida, Tokyo, Sumida. The line is named after the Asakusa district, a cultural center of Tokyo, un ...

Tokyo Metro The Tokyo Metro () is a major rapid transit system in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the #Organization, Tokyo Metro Co. With an average daily ridership of 6.52 million passengers (as of 2023), the Tokyo Metro is the larger of the Tokyo subway, two s ...

*** 05 series – Tokyo Metro for Tozai Line and

Chiyoda Line The is a subway line owned and operated by Tokyo Metro in Tokyo, Japan. On average, the line carries 1,447,730 passengers daily (2017), the second highest of the Tokyo Metro network, behind the Tozai Line (1,642,378).Hiroshima Electric Railway *** LF LRV 5100 series ** Sendai City Transportation Bureau *** 2000 series – Sendai Subway for Tozai Line ** Fukuoka Municipal Transportation Bureau *** 2000 series – Stainless Steel Electric Train * Prototype(s) **

Smart BEST The Smart BEST is an experimental Japanese two-car self-charging battery electric multiple unit (BEMU) train developed and manufactured by Kinki Sharyo in 2012 to demonstrate the feasibility of battery train technology for use on non-electrifie ...

hybrid Battery electric multiple unit

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